Pension Application of David Vance, Independence Co, AR *********************************************************** Submitted by: Updated: 22 Mar 2007 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************** Nat’l Archives Series M804, Roll __, Application #S32031 Territory of Arkansas, Independence County} At the January term of the Circuit Court of said county, 1833 On this 8th day of January, 1833, personally appeared in open court before the justices of the county court of Independence County and Territory of Arkansas now sitting, David Vance, a resident of said county and territory, aged 74 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration…: That he joined and entered the service as a drafted soldier in the regular [crossed out, replaced with] militia of the United State in February of 1778 under Captain William Dobson (he don’t recollect the colonel’s name) five months, the time required. He enlisted, or rather was drafted and mustered at Salisbury in Rowan County, North Carolina and marched to the Hanging Rock, and from thence to Charleston, and went to the Cowpens, and from there to the Black Swamp, and there discharged and returned home. And was shortly made a prisoner by the enemy and took him to Hillsborough and put him in jail and kept him confined four weeks and permitted him to go home on parole, but he lay out and kept hid until after the Battle of Guilford, when he was again permitted to make his appea rance. That he was one month a volunteer in a light horse company (as he thinks) under Colonel Lee, and a good deal engaged in scouting. That he has no documentary evidence to prove his services in the War of the Revolution, and knows of no person in this county who can testify to his service. That in consequence of the hardship and exposure in the jail aforesaid, he has ever since been a cripple. He never was in any battle because he was always kept scouting while in service. Interrogatories: Interrogatories propounded by the court: Q. Where and in what year were you born? A. I was born in Winchester, Virginia, 25 August, 1757. Q. Have you any record of your age? If so, where is it? A. I have none. The record is destroyed. Q. Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolution, and where do you now live? A. In Guilford County, North Carolina. I have lived in South Carolina 18 years, from thence I moved to Tennessee and lived there 10 years, then I moved to Missouri about 8 years, then I came to the county where I now live. Q. How were you called into service? Were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute, and if a substitute, for whom? A. I was a drafted soldier for five months, a volunteer one month. Q. State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops when you served, such Continental and militia regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service. A. I do not recollect any of the regular officers. I do not even recollect the names of the officers of the Continental or militia regiments. Q. Did you receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it? A. I never received any discharge.